Our experts analyze commodities markets across sectors to determine standard-compliant consumption and production trends, their opportunities and challenges for sustainable development, and more. Our pieces of analysis range from commentaries to policy briefs to reports.
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Policy Reports and Briefs |
Governments in developing countries and regions are adopting VSSs in export promotion measures to ensure exported products meet sustainability-related market requirements, while also expanding trading opportunities for producers, women, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. This report ...
Policy Reports and Briefs |
Greenwashing has become a growing policy concern as businesses increasingly market products, services, and practices using environmental claims. Misleading or unsubstantiated claims can weaken consumer trust, distort competition, and undermine genuine sustainability efforts. In response, governme...
Other Publications |
This guide supports organizations that promote sustainable market-based initiatives to strengthen how they listen to, work with, and learn from producers across different contexts.
Policy Reports and Briefs |
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) can help governments boost trade and sustainable production practices. As a result, they are increasingly integrated into trade instruments in the form of market access regulations, export promotion strategies, and free trade agreements. Against this back...
Policy Reports and Briefs |
The EUDR is among the most ambitious environmental trade measures ever enacted, requiring that commodities like cocoa, coffee, and timber sold in the European Union are proven to be deforestation-free and legally produced. The EUDR’s reach is global, but its implications are particularly signific...
Sustainable and Resilient Value Chains |
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) and private sector actors can prevent, respond to, recover from, and adapt to deforestation risks in global value chains.
Case Studies |
India's greenwashing rules boost responsible business, build consumer trust, and help firms meet rising transparency and sustainability standards.
Other Publications |
This guide supports agricultural cooperatives and their partners in Cambodia to develop business plans that strengthen sustainability and resilience.
Insights and Commentaries |
Voluntary sustainability standard-setting organizations (VSSSOs) should enhance producer engagement by adopting transparent, inclusive, and responsive practices that move beyond consultation to collaboration and empowerment.
Policy Reports and Briefs |
Several commercial fisheries in Manitoba are looking to eco-certify, and these fisheries sell their fish primarily to international markets. In this report we analyze European and U.S. market trends in the certified sustainable fish and seafood sector with the goal of unpacking the implications f...